Lead AI Platform Engineer - Enterprise, Hybrid

New York Life Insurance Co; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life Insurance Co. is seeking a Lead Full-Stack AI Engineer to shape and evolve the enterprise AI platform, delivering scalable agentic AI solutions and driving business transformation.

You will collaborate with stakeholders and mentor engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI systems. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, governance, and cutting-edge AI integrations, within a hybrid work environment in New York.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of software engineering experience in enterprise or platform teams.
• Experience building enterprise AI platforms and scalable cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on with generative AI, agentic architectures, RAG, and knowledge management.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of the enterprise AI platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions while remaining hands-on.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards.
• Drive engineering excellence and establish patterns for scalable delivery.

Skills

Enterprise AI platforms

Agentic AI

GCP

Kubernetes

MLOps

LLMOps

CI/CD

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Observability tooling

Job description

New York Life Insurance Co. is seeking a Lead Full-Stack AI Engineer to shape and evolve the enterprise AI platform, delivering scalable agentic AI solutions and driving business transformation.

You will collaborate with stakeholders and mentor engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI systems. The role emphasizes architecture decisions, governance, and cutting-edge AI integrations, within a hybrid work environment in New York.